Germany, Luftwaffe. A Grumello del Piano POW Camp Guard Trench Art Cigarette Case Province of China maker marked on reverse “Эдуард”

maker marked on reverse “Эдуард” (“Eduard”) for the firm of Eduard Ferdinanovich Dietwald

1892 in Stannern (present-day Stonařov

the obverse bear an aluminum yarn “V” pattern Litze with a centre stripe of bright aluminum with a silver coloured pebbled button affixed to the upper portion

printed on glassed Agfa-Lupex paper and studio-marked on the reverse “FOTO „HETA“ LÜNEN”

John Robert Taber

Germany, Luftwaffe. A Grumello del Piano POW Camp Guard Trench Art Cigarette Case Province of China maker marked on reverse “Эдуард”(Kriegsgefangenenlagerwrter Zigarettenetui). Constructed of aluminum, the lid bearing a hand engraved Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika situated above a date of OKT. 1943, circumscribed by an inscription of ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE WACHE GEFANGEN LAGER GRUMELLE DEL PIANO, the base bearing a hand engraved map of the Mediterranean and its coastal regions, opening with a functional hinge to reveal a plain interior, unmarked, measuring 7. 5 cm (w)